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http: drop custom http client logic

Eight and a half years ago, as my starter bug on code.google.com, I
investigated a mysterious "broken pipe" error from seemingly random
clients[0]. That investigation revealed a tragic story: the Python
standard library's httplib was (and remains) barely functional. During
large POSTs, if a server responds early with an error (even a
permission denied error!) the client only notices that the server
closed the connection and everything breaks. Such server behavior is
implicitly legal under RFC 2616 (the latest HTTP RFC as of when I was
last working on this), and my understanding is that later RFCs have
made it explicitly legal to respond early with any status code outside
the 2xx range.

I embarked, probably foolishly, on a journey to write a new http
library with better overall behavior. The http library appears to work
well in most cases, but it can get confused in the presence of
proxies, and it depends on select(2) which limits its utility if a lot
of file descriptors are open. I haven't touched the http library in
almost two years, and in the interim the Python community has
discovered a better way[1] of writing network code. In theory some day
urllib3 will have its own home-grown http library built on h11[2], or
we could do that. Either way, it's time to declare our current
confusingly-named "http2" client logic and move on. I do hope to
revisit this some day: it's still garbage that we can't even respond
with a 401 or 403 without reading the entire POST body from the
client, but the goalposts on writing a new http client library have
moved substantially. We're almost certainly better off just switching
to requests and eventually picking up their http fixes than trying to
live with something that realistically only we'll ever use. Another
approach would be to write an adapter so that Mercurial can use pycurl
if it's installed. Neither of those approaches seem like they should
be investigated prior to a release of Mercurial that works on Python
3: that's where the mindshare is going to be for any improvements to
the state of the http client art.

0: http://web.archive.org/web/20130501031801/http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2716
1: http://sans-io.readthedocs.io/
2: https://github.com/njsmith/h11

Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D2444

test --time

  $ hg --time help -q help 2>&1 | grep time > /dev/null
  $ hg init a
  $ cd a

Function to check that statprof ran
  $ statprofran () {
  >   egrep 'Sample count:|No samples recorded' > /dev/null
  > }

test --profile

  $ hg st --profile 2>&1 | statprofran

Abreviated version

  $ hg st --prof 2>&1 | statprofran

In alias

  $ hg --config "alias.profst=status --profile" profst 2>&1 | statprofran

#if lsprof

  $ prof='hg --config profiling.type=ls --profile'

  $ $prof st 2>../out
  $ grep CallCount ../out > /dev/null || cat ../out

  $ $prof --config profiling.output=../out st
  $ grep CallCount ../out > /dev/null || cat ../out

  $ $prof --config profiling.output=blackbox --config extensions.blackbox= st
  $ grep CallCount .hg/blackbox.log > /dev/null || cat .hg/blackbox.log

  $ $prof --config profiling.format=text st 2>../out
  $ grep CallCount ../out > /dev/null || cat ../out

  $ echo "[profiling]" >> $HGRCPATH
  $ echo "format=kcachegrind" >> $HGRCPATH

  $ $prof st 2>../out
  $ grep 'events: Ticks' ../out > /dev/null || cat ../out

  $ $prof --config profiling.output=../out st
  $ grep 'events: Ticks' ../out > /dev/null || cat ../out

#endif

#if lsprof serve

Profiling of HTTP requests works

  $ $prof --config profiling.format=text --config profiling.output=../profile.log serve -d -p $HGPORT --pid-file ../hg.pid -A ../access.log
  $ cat ../hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
  $ hg -q clone -U http://localhost:$HGPORT ../clone

A single profile is logged because file logging doesn't append
  $ grep CallCount ../profile.log | wc -l
  \s*1 (re)

#endif

Install an extension that can sleep and guarantee a profiler has time to run

  $ cat >> sleepext.py << EOF
  > import time
  > from mercurial import registrar, commands
  > cmdtable = {}
  > command = registrar.command(cmdtable)
  > @command(b'sleep', [], 'hg sleep')
  > def sleep(ui, *args, **kwargs):
  >     time.sleep(0.1)
  > EOF

  $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF
  > [extensions]
  > sleep = `pwd`/sleepext.py
  > EOF

statistical profiler works

  $ hg --profile sleep 2>../out
  $ cat ../out | statprofran

Various statprof formatters work

  $ hg --profile --config profiling.statformat=byline sleep 2>../out
  $ head -n 1 ../out
    %   cumulative      self          
  $ cat ../out | statprofran

  $ hg --profile --config profiling.statformat=bymethod sleep 2>../out
  $ head -n 1 ../out
    %   cumulative      self          
  $ cat ../out | statprofran

  $ hg --profile --config profiling.statformat=hotpath sleep 2>../out
  $ cat ../out | statprofran

  $ hg --profile --config profiling.statformat=json sleep 2>../out
  $ cat ../out
  \[\[-?\d+.* (re)

statprof can be used as a standalone module

  $ $PYTHON -m mercurial.statprof hotpath
  must specify --file to load
  [1]

  $ cd ..

#if no-chg
profiler extension could be loaded before other extensions

  $ cat > fooprof.py <<EOF
  > from __future__ import absolute_import
  > import contextlib
  > @contextlib.contextmanager
  > def profile(ui, fp):
  >     print('fooprof: start profile')
  >     yield
  >     print('fooprof: end profile')
  > def extsetup(ui):
  >     ui.write('fooprof: loaded\n')
  > EOF

  $ cat > otherextension.py <<EOF
  > from __future__ import absolute_import
  > def extsetup(ui):
  >     ui.write('otherextension: loaded\n')
  > EOF

  $ hg init b
  $ cd b
  $ cat >> .hg/hgrc <<EOF
  > [extensions]
  > other = $TESTTMP/otherextension.py
  > fooprof = $TESTTMP/fooprof.py
  > EOF

  $ hg root
  otherextension: loaded
  fooprof: loaded
  $TESTTMP/b
  $ HGPROF=fooprof hg root --profile
  fooprof: loaded
  fooprof: start profile
  otherextension: loaded
  $TESTTMP/b
  fooprof: end profile

  $ HGPROF=other hg root --profile 2>&1 | head -n 2
  otherextension: loaded
  unrecognized profiler 'other' - ignored

  $ HGPROF=unknown hg root --profile 2>&1 | head -n 1
  unrecognized profiler 'unknown' - ignored

  $ cd ..
#endif